Robert - great start. Please complete the 500 words, include paragraphs, and underline and properly cite your data. Interesting facts.Homelessness Homelessness is a very big problem in the United States. One of the reasons there are more and more people without homes is because of prices. It’s not helping that in the past year we have lost over 5 big companies to other countries. So there are only medium to blow paying jobs left. In 57 percent of cities families have to break up in order to be able to go in to a shelter. Being unemployment increases your chance of being homeless (1). Homelessness is mostly by single men by 44 percent, then single 13 percent, families 36 percent, and then unaccompanied minors 7 percent. The homeless population is about 50 percent African-American, 35 percent white, 12 percent Hispanic, and 2 percent Native American, and 1 percent Asian. About 30 percent have been homeless for more than 2 years (2). About 750,000 men, women, children are homeless in the United States. 59percent are single adults and 41 percent are people living with families. So there are 98,452 homeless families (3). Of all homeless men 40 percent served in the armed forces. Most of the time shelters are filled to capacity or sometimes over and people cannot be admitted due to safety hazards. So people are forced to be put on waiting lists or even people are turned away (4). (1) http://www.npach.org/facts.htm (2) http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/homeless.shtml (3) http://www.thechicagoalliance.org/homelessstats.aspx (4) http://library.thinkquest.org/10374/html/facts.html
Homelessness is a very big problem in the United States. One of the reasons there are more and more people without homes is because of prices. It’s not helping that in the past year we have lost over 5 big companies to other countries. So there are only medium to blow paying jobs left. In 57 percent of cities families have to break up in order to be able to go in to a shelter. Being unemployment increases your chance of being homeless (1). Homelessness is mostly by single men by 44 percent, then single 13 percent, families 36 percent, and then unaccompanied minors 7 percent. The homeless population is about 50 percent African-American, 35 percent white, 12 percent Hispanic, and 2 percent Native American, and 1 percent Asian. About 30 percent have been homeless for more than 2 years (2). About 750,000 men, women, children are homeless in the United States. 59percent are single adults and 41 percent are people living with families. So there are 98,452 homeless families (3). Of all homeless men 40 percent served in the armed forces. Most of the time shelters are filled to capacity or sometimes over and people cannot be admitted due to safety hazards. So people are forced to be put on waiting lists or even people are turned away (4).
(1) http://www.npach.org/facts.htm
(2) http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/homeless.shtml
(3) http://www.thechicagoalliance.org/homelessstats.aspx
(4) http://library.thinkquest.org/10374/html/facts.html